There’s something perversely fascinating in this photo of Katie Holmes and the ever adorable Suri shopping in NYC (more here) and emerging from the Hermès boutique with matching shopping bags. These photos are just as cute as the ones of Angelina and …

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Continue reading → Take Your Daughter To Hermès Day

Or: The Scent Twins Take Manhattan (and make SAs cry)One of the best things about a sniffing expedition with your scent twin is that it instantly doubles the available skin space (and if he is a very tall and long-limbed guy, all the more skin to use)….

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Continue reading → Oh, the things we have smelled!

Laura Mercier has a UK-only limited edition fragrance for women coming to the US, available at Nordstorm for 4 days only. It’s Nuit Enchantées (=Enchanted Nights), inspired by the One Thousand and One Nights tale and tagged as “the perfect sensual sc…

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Continue reading → Laura Mercier exclusive Nuits Enchantees in the US: fragrance news

Our last full day in Paris (or actually, our supposed last one. We ended up staying another day because of a cancelled flight and airline delays, not that it did us any good, being stuck in an sub-par airport hotel that had no wireless connection) was …

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Continue reading → An American Blogger In Paris: Etat Libre d’Orange

Le Marais quarter in Paris is a fun and eclectic place. It has a mix of Judaica, a gay population, two (great) vegetarian restaurants, art galleries, trendy stores and falafel. We were there to meet Denyse of Grain De Musc and explore the Etat Libre d’…

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Continue reading → An American Blogger In Paris: Skalli Jewelry

1) In case you missed the news, Donna Karan has relaunched the legendary discontinued scents, and is making some eBay sellers cry: Chaos, Black Cashmere, Fuel, the Essence series and the original Donna Karan. They’ve been repackaged in plain bottles, b…

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Continue reading → Two Little PSAs

Living right next to the Paramus malls and 15 minutes away from Manhattan makes one a bit jaded and hard to impress when it comes to shopping. There are very few things you can’t find around here, fashion-wise, but when it comes to perfume shopping I …

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Continue reading → An American Blogger In Paris: More Perfume Shopping

One of our many discoveries (other than a dangerous devotion to pain au chocolat) in our previous visit to Paris was Father & Sons, a smallish brand (about twenty five stores in France and Belgium) of menswear. We stumbled on their original store r…

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Continue reading → An American Blogger In Paris: Father & Sons Menswear

The Guerlain boutique on 68 Champs-Elysees is my happy place (I considered calling it a perfumista’s Disneyland, but that would be so very wrong). It was the opposite of my wretched Caron experience, both in terms of the wonderful gracious and patient …

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Continue reading → An American Blogger In Paris: Guerlain

Or: Luca Turin Was RightWhile I was living in vintage heaven, something bad has happened to the house of Caron. It’s not that I was completely oblivious. I knew that the house has changed hands, I’ve heard that scents were reformulated and I read Perfu…

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Continue reading → An American Blogger In Paris: Visiting The Caron Boutique

While just about every store selling fashion and/or accessories has its own take on the animal print craze, I kept looking for something a bit different and less recognizable. I knew I wanted a bracelet, but was determined to avoid the enamel zebra pat…

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Continue reading → Beauty in the details

Many wonderful suggestions out there for the one person in our lives who loves us no matter what: our mother. Perfume Shrine presents you with some of them.From Beautyhabit:Beautiful solid fragrances encased in antique gold compacts in the In Fiore lin…

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Continue reading → Mother’s Day suggestions

Bad news for perfume lovers in the NY Metro area. LuiLei in Brooklyn has closed, leaving us with less options for niche shopping. I’m not too surprised, because unlike their competitors, Aedes in Manhattan and ScentBar in L.A., LuiLei never seemed to d…

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Continue reading → Out of Business: LuiLei

I know I promised a series of pretty things, but before I go back to that there’s some grumpiness that needs to be addressed. Let’s get this out of the way:Last week as I was packing my bags for vacation, I realized that I’m almost out of Secret de Vie…

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Continue reading → The Return of the Cranky Shopper

Let’s talk about sales assistants.Everyone I know has a story or two and I’ve heard some amusing theories about special training in customer-terrorizing. Considering my experience lately, I’m starting to think it might be true.I know a thing or two abo…

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Continue reading → From the diary of a cranky shopper